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| Polar bears cut off from penguin supply because of melting ice. |
| 2008-09-25 |
| "The Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears," according to Kassie Siegel, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. "They are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for all of their essential behaviors, and as the ice melts and global warming transforms the Arctic, polar bears are starving, drowning, even resorting to cannibalism because they don't have access to their usual food sources." Scientists have noticed increasing reports of starving Arctic polar bears attacking and feeding on one another in recent years. In one documented 2004 incident in northern Alaska, a male bear broke into a female's den and killed her. My headline is almost as dumb as this statement. Polar bears like lions are known to attack the cubs of a female. Often the female is killed trying to protect her young. In May, the U.S. Department of Interior listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act. In a news release, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne stated, "loss of sea ice threatens and will likely continue to threaten polar bear habitat. This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species." |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #9 Maybe when it's starved and lost all fat, the bear sinks . . . . |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-09-25 23:33 |
| #8 Fish, seals, and whatever they can catch. The thing is, Polar Bears will swim long distances in search of food. Like from the limits of the icepack down to Iceland. (I think this happened earlier this year, where the authorities pointed out that it was the first time in twenty years or so that it had happened... and then shot the bear. We're supposed to be doing all sorts of stuff to ourselves and deindustrializing to save the Polar Bear. Hey guys, what about y'all just stop shooting at them?) |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-09-25 22:32 |
| #7 ...or slow natives, or the truly rare tourist/journalist ignoramus. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-25 21:49 |
| #6 I think the staple of a Polar Bear diet is fish. This entire article is nonsense. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-25 20:38 |
| #5 HISTORY CHANNEL "MONSTERQUEST"/OTHER > Polar bears are not only swimming, they'e making landfall in NORTHERN CANADA and having sex wid the local CINDY BEARS [Yogi Toon], ala so-called "PRIZZLY/PROWN BEARS" [Polar-Grizzly/Brown Bear Hybrid]??? ALso reportedly spotted in GREENLAND-ICELAND [Sorry, were NOT drinking BUDWEISER BEER]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-09-25 20:33 |
| #4 Polar bears survived the warming trend around 1000 when it was 3-4 deg C warmer than now, they survived the warming trend that happened 5000 years ago, they will survive long after our generation is ashes. More scare tactics from the now desperate greens to be noticed. Sorry chums, people look after their shrinking money in their wallet and look out for themselves now instead of listening to you. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-09-25 20:24 |
| #3 More likely due to overpopulation. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2008-09-25 20:00 |
| #2 "Polar bears cut off from penguin supply because of melting ice." So do you want ice between North Pole and South Pole? :D |
| Posted by: Dino Pholulet5957 2008-09-25 19:48 |
| #1 "polar bears are starving, drowning, even resorting to cannibalism" Oh, ferchrissakes, dumbass - polar bear can SWIM. And why are the polar bears even around, if what you say is true? Why didn't earlier even warmer periods send the polar bears into extinction? Idiots. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-25 18:50 |